Cabinet for talking-machines.



B. BEECROFTD CABINET FOR TALKING MACHINES.

AFPUCATION FILED MAY27. I915 Emma 06 5301917.

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CLEMENT BEECH/OFT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CABINET FOR TALKING-MACHINES.

release.

Application filed May 27, 1815.

as one without liability of the machine being,

removed from the cabinet, and the machine cannot be displaced from its position on the cabinet in handlim or operating the same.

The invention is satisfactorily illustrated in the accompanying drawing, but the important instrumentalities 'thereof may be varied, as long as they are included in the scope of the claims.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of i a cabinet for a talking machine embodying 'my' invention including such machine thereon.

Fig. 2 represents a vertical section of a portion thereof including a front elevation of the talking machine thereon. Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of a portion of the cabinet.

Similar numerals or" reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

' Refe1'ring to the drawings.

1 designates the casing of a talking machine rnown as such, and i3 designates the record cabinet on the top of which said casing is imposed and supported, said casing havingon the corners of its base 3 the legs at which rest on said top.

In order to Secure said casing to said cabinet and prevent displacement thereof 1 secure to the top of the latter a frame composed of the cleats 5, (3, 7 and 8 which rise respectively from the several sides thereof, the cleats 5, 5, and 7 being primarily fixed to the cabinet, and the renn'iining cleat 8 being primarily separated therefrom forming a gate for the opening 9 in a side of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Got. 30, 191?.

Serial No. 30,731.

frame, but which is closed when said cleat 8 is in position in said opening.

The cleats are adapted to incline inwardly whereby when the separated cleat 8 is removed, the casing 1 may be placed upon the cabinet, its base portion and legs sliding or passing under the side cleats 6 and 7 and entering under the front cleat 5. Then the cleat 8 is applied in position and secured, when as will be seen it preserves the continuity of the several cleats and the casing is interlocked with the cabinet by the several cleats and so retained on the cabinet that it cannot shiftthereon in any lateral directions. Furthermore, as the cleats, ineline inwardly and overhang the base and legs of the casing, they form dovetailed joints with said base and legs and so prevent the casing from being raised from the cabinet. T hen the molding on the sides of the casing of the machine is adapted to be seated on the topso'f the cleats and serve additionally to steady the casing most firmly on said cleats, and conseqiiently on the top of the cabinet, an important feature for a talking machine.

Should it be desired to remove the machine from the cabinet, the cleat 8 is disconnected from the cabinet whereby the opening 9 is uncovered and so the machine may be slidingly moved on the top of the cabinet through said opening and disengaged from the cleats 5, 6, and '7 without disturbing the other cleats.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A cabinet for a talking machine having a top on which the casing of the machine is,

adapted to be supported, an inclosure rising from said top, and formed of cleats which are adapted to engage the sides of the base, certain of the cleats being fixed to said top and another cleat forming a gate for entrance into the space of the inclosure, and means for holding the. gate in closed position and permitting its opening.

2. A cabinet for a talking machine having a top on which the casing of the machine is adapted to be supported cleats i'ising said to zing an. inclesure for ihe of the base of said machine and interlock therewith, separate from the other dents and movable forming a gate 01 the inserkicn of said base iIAo the space of said inclossure (he inner sides of bhe cleats oYerhangin so as 50 form interim 511g joints with sink a CLEMENT BEECRGFT,

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